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The package, as they say in Hollywood, looked great. Three top stars in the movie version of a Pulitzer prizewinning comedy that was also a long-running Broadway hit. A show that found sympathetic humor in incidents that scream like headlines from a Mississippi tabloid: MAMA MAGRATH HANGS SELF AND...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Once a Comedy, Now an Elegy Crimes of the Heart | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

In addition, lasers in space could act with lightning speed, igniting 70-80 fires on the earth every second--and that is the capability of just one station. The Reagan Administration has suggested deploying 160 such stations, leading one of the researchers to conclude that, "all of the major cities...

Author: By David G. Patent, | Title: President Reagan's Foolish Strategic Offense Initiative | 12/17/1986 | See Source »

This makes Regan a lightning rod for criticism of the Administration when problems erupt. Resting his case on Iran, the Daniloff deal and Reagan's murky conduct at the Iceland summit, conservative Columnist George Will wrote last week: "The aides in close contact with President Reagan today are the least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The De Facto President | 12/1/1986 | See Source »

That capability gave rise about three years ago to a particularly canny and complex form of program trading. It is a kind of arbitrage in which traders make lightning transactions to take advantage of fleeting discrepancies in the prices of related financial instruments in different markets. One of the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strap on Your Seat Belts! | 11/10/1986 | See Source »

Alas! Late night procrastinators still cannot purchase the new soda in Harvard Square. Local vendors--like Sage's, Store 24 and Christie's Market--do not yet carry the product and give no date when they might stock the lightning-clad cans. The closest vendor which offers the all-nighter...

Author: By David M. Lazarus, | Title: A New Way to Cope With Expos | 10/3/1986 | See Source »

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